Act Number: 25

Act Name: The Advocates Act, 1961

Year: 1961

Enactment Date: 1961-05-19

Long Title: An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the legal practitioners and to provide for the constitution of Bar Councils and an All-India Bar.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Department of Legal Affairs

Section 47: Reciprocity.
    (1) Where any country, specified by the Central Government in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette, prevents citizens of India from practising the profession of law or subjects them to unfair discrimination in that country, no subject of any such country shall be entitled to practise the profession of law in India.
     (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Bar Council of India may prescribe the conditions, if any, subject to which foreign qualifications in law obtained by persons other than citizens of India shall be recognised for the purpose of admission as an advocate under this Act.
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